The Splinter Generation – Call for Submissions: Open Reading from October 1-December 1 The Splinter Generation, a literary journal for and about people born between 1973 and 1993, has begun its next reading period and is now accepting submissions for creative nonfiction, fiction and poetry from October 1-December 1. And now new, Do Talk to Strangers, our new interview series will be taking submissions into the new year. You can read all...

We run the monthly bilingual art magazine “HESA inprint” (ISSN-L 1799-8549), which every month feature a free open call for entry, for people to submit work from any medium on a theme. Each entry is reviewed and published on the blog and a curated selection published in the printed magazine (artists featured in the magazine will receive a free copy). Even though our publication is not dedicated to writing, we greatly appreciate...

Switchback is proud to announce the start of our monthly Flash Contest. Each month we will be giving you a prompt and we want you to give us your best work inspired by that prompt. The winning entry as decided by our editors will then be featured on the site. Submissions can be fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or even art, so long as it’s amazing and 500 words or less. The September prompt is: “He knew he should never have come...

We are launching a contest to design the cover for our upcoming book called ‘Best Paris Short Stories’. There is no entry fee and the winning prize is 100 Euros. Deadline for submission is September 30, 2011. Here are the Submission guidelines: The title is: Best Paris Short Stories Format: JPEG Color: RGB Dimensions of front cover: 5 X 8 in or 203 X 127 mm* Minimum resolution: 300 dpi Maximum file size: 20 MB per image File name:...

Trigger:  www.statushat.org/trigger 2nd Edition: The Extremes Call for Submissions Lately, we at Trigger have been thinking a lot about the role of subject matter in art. There are, it seems to us, two specific extremes of subject matter in fiction, poetry, and visual art. Some art focuses directly on moments of change or crisis, on the big moments in the lives of characters, creators, or subjects. Births, deaths, disease, divorce, marriage,...

Black is back. Actually, black never left, though many have tried to claim various shades as the “new black.” At Black Heart, we’ve always known darkness, like spilled ink or a night without stars. We like it best with the lights out and the projector humming with a good, old-fashioned noir. Help us create our NOIR issue, an homage to the black-and-white crime novels of yesteryear, featuring delicious dames, gregarious...